An Open Book: What and How Young Children Learn From Picture and Story Books

Looking at and listening to picture and story books is a ubiquitous activity, frequently enjoyed by many young children and their parents. Well before children can read for themselves they are able to learn from books. Looking at and listening to books increases children's general knowledge, un...

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Main Author: Carmel Houston-Price (auth)
Other Authors: Jessica S. Horst (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
Series:Frontiers Research Topics
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Summary:Looking at and listening to picture and story books is a ubiquitous activity, frequently enjoyed by many young children and their parents. Well before children can read for themselves they are able to learn from books. Looking at and listening to books increases children's general knowledge, understanding about the world and promotes language acquisition. This collection of papers demonstrates the breadth of information pre-reading children learn from books and increases our understanding of the social and cognitive mechanisms that support this learning. Our hope is that this Research Topic/eBook will be useful for researchers as well as educational practitioners and parents who are interested in optimizing children's learning.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (200 p.)
ISBN:978-2-88919-728-6
9782889197286
Access:Open Access